Literature – Page 42 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

Edited By: Polina Mackay, Kathryn Nicol

£39.99

Kathy Acker’s fictions prefigured our contemporary world. This collection of essays analyzes transnationalism in her work, locating her in current debates on postnationalism and global identity—a timely re-appraisal of an important American writer.

Solitaires, Solidaires

Conflict and Confluence in Women’s Writings in French

Edited By: Elise Hugueny-Léger, Caroline Verdier

£47.99

Reflecting on the theme of female solidarity, the contributions to this volume focus on its representation in French and Francophone society, literature, journalism and history from the 17th-21st centuries.

Reading Communities

A Dialogical Approach to French and Francophone Literature / Communautés de lecture

Edited By: Oana Panaïté

£47.99

This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.

Table Talk

Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature

Edited By: Christiana Purdy Moudarres

£34.99

These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.

The Urban Environmental Crisis in India

New Initiatives in Safe Water and Waste Management

Edited By: Radha Goyal, Ashish Jain, Shyamli Singh

£76.99

This compendium represents a unique collection of thoughts and views of various water management experts. It highlights that the future of the emerging urban society lies in the proper management of waste and not in mere disposal.

The Hamlet Zone

Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures

Edited By: Ruth J. Owen

£39.99

For four hundred years, the myth of Hamlet has crossed Europe’s borders, spawning new, independent works of theatre, ballet, fiction, and film. This book examines how Hamlet, through translation and adaptation, became Europe's common cultural currency.

Following the Animal

Power, Agency, and Human-Animal Transformations in Modern, Northern-European Literature

By: Ann-Sofie Lönngren

£47.99

Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.

Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips

£44.99

This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.

Re-reading / La relecture

Essays in honour of Graham Falconer

Edited By: Rachel Falconer, Andrew Oliver

£44.99

What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.

The Lives of Texts

Exploring the Metaphor

Edited By: Andrzej Kowalczyk, Katarzyna Pisarska

£49.99

Exploring the metaphor of a text as a living organism, this book traces life-like phenomena—birth, maturation, death, and resurrection—in literature from the Middle Ages to popular culture, including works by Mary Shelley, J.K. Rowling, and Neil Gaiman.

Telling and Re-telling Stories

Studies on Literary Adaptation to Film

Edited By: Paula Baldwin Lind

£47.99

The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.

A Comparative Analysis of Violence in Margaret Drabble and Four Selected Iraqi Novels

By: Bushra Juhi Jani

From £30.99

This is the first work comparing Margaret Drabble with key Iraqi novelists, including Ahmed Saadawi. It analyses physical and soft violence in their novels, arguing they are interwoven and that soft violence can cause as much psychological and literal damage as hard violence.

Basic Categories of Fantastic Literature Revisited

Edited By: Joanna Matyjaszczyk, Piotr Spyra, Andrzej Wicher

£41.99

This collection of essays offers a theoretical overview of fantastic literature. An accessible introduction to the field, it analyzes works by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman alongside world literature classics.

Quintessential Wilde

His Worldly Place, His Penetrating Philosophy and His Influential Aestheticism

Edited By: Annette M. Magid

£62.99

Celebrating Oscar Wilde’s genius, this book explores a variety of subjects, including his travels, sexuality, novels, homosexuality, influence on others and morality. It offers historical, biographical, psychological and sociological perspectives written by international experts.

An Ethics of Reading

Interpretative Strategies for Contemporary Multicultural American Literature

By: Sandra Cox

£47.99

Sandra Cox considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas, and situates novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another.

In Search of the Medieval Voice

Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages

Edited By: Lorna Bleach, Katariina Närä, Sian Prosser

£39.99

This collection of articles is an intriguing way of looking at medieval identity. Reaching beyond literature, this book examines the authorial and pictorial voice, the voice of national identity, and even the physical attributes a medieval voice may have had.

The Other India

Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence

Edited By: Om Prakash Dwivedi

£39.99

This book explores how identities and belonging are constructed in postcolonial India. Examining various texts and movies, it discusses how the nation is plagued by communal politics and terrorism, and offers a cogent alternative for creating solidarity.

American Women Writers, Poetics, and the Nature of Gender Study

Edited By: Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo

£45.99

This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.

Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance

Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America

Edited By: Benjamin D. Carson

£34.99

This collection explores literary works by and about Native Americans, focusing on how they have navigated and resisted dominant white ideology. These essays examine the discrepancy between ideological representations and the actual lived experiences of native peoples.

Ex-changes

Comparative Studies in British and American Cultures

Edited By: Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Katarzyna Więckowska

£44.99

This collection of articles explores the transfer of ideas in British and American cultures. Analyzing cultural texts from fiction to film, these essays document shifting definitions of identity, gender, and nationality across various genres, media, and disciplines.